via Hallmark: When a train derails and delays the arrival of much needed food, supplies and presents, Christmas in the settlement town of Hope Valley is in jeopardy. With the help of a mysterious visitor, a simple peddler who has a knack for helping people find what they need, Jack, Elizabeth and Abigail rally the town residents to come together in the true spirit of kindness and giving, proving that Christmas really is the season for miracles.

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My big bone of contention with Hallmark is their treatment of Cedar Cove. I feel like they really treated the viewers with contempt.

I enjoyed the first season and continued to watch although it went in a direction I am sure Debbie Macomber would never have gone.

I appreciate that all shows will eventually come to an end for various reasons and can accept this but it is how Hallmark did this that really annoys.

To pull the show between seasons with many plot lines left hanging was grossly unfair.

The viewers deserved closure. It wouldn't even have mattered if the various endings were not what I particularly liked since they would be catering for several million viewers and obviously couldn't satisfy everyone but at least it would have been an ending.

Hallmark are churning out so many new movies now that they had the perfect vehicle to round things off by producing an 80 minute production of Cedar Cove - The Movie which would have been fair to everyone.

I was left feeling cheated and resolved never to invest my time in such projects again in case the same thing happens which is why I will never watch When Calls The Heart, Chesapeake Shores etc.

It's not quite as simple as just producing a movie to give some closure to Cedar Cove. There is more that goes into it than that.

Well, first of all, let me backtrack... TV series get cancelled all the time, every year, on every network. It's not a new thing. In many cases the casts, writers and crews do not have the luxury of knowing they will be cancelled in advance, so they cannot prepare and close out the storylines for the viewers. It's unfortunate, but that's the way it works in the TV business/entertainment industry. Sometimes the plug gets pulled with some warning, and sometimes there is no warning at all.

Someone, somewhere, on the corporate side of Hallmark decided that Cedar Cove was no longer cost effective or worthwhile to keep on the air -- and that decision could be for a number of reasons to which viewers are not privy, but also largely due to the ratings not being where they should have been in the 3rd season.

Once Cedar Cove was cancelled, the actors involved in the show were no longer under contract and obligated to be available for a certain period of time to film it. So, if Hallmark were to do a movie just for the sake of closure, they would essentially have to rehire all of the actors and make sure they were all available again, at the same time, to be able to film it and address their stories. Maybe that will happen at some point down the road -- hopefully it will -- but many of the actors have moved on and started work on other things. The schedules could be trickier to coordinate for a large ensemble cast such as the (former) Cedar Cove cast.

So, essentially, if a closure movie were ever to take place, it might not happen for quite a while -- and that's IF the Hallmark executives who cancelled the series even think it is worthwhile to do a movie. And, at that point, I'm not sure how many people are really going to be thinking about how the series ended anymore.

When Calls the Heart is a hugely popular series for the Hallmark Channel -- a series which did not suffer from a mass exodus of angry viewers after Cedar Cove was cancelled -- but even WCTH could be cancelled arbitrarily, without much of an explanation, at any time. Nothing on TV is ever 100% safe from the chopping block, sadly.

There are all kinds of programming mysteries where Hallmark is concerned -- such as the sudden and rather cold dismissal of Cristina Ferrare from "Home & Family" earlier this year, and several projects that were officially announced as coming up in 2016 -- which never happened. The 2015 Cedar Cove cancellation is just another one of those mysteries.

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